The USGS and Hurricane Matthew
 Hurricane Matthew Information Portal
The USGS South Atlantic Water Science Center (SAWSC) is deploying most of the USGS Storm-Tide Network along the Atlantic coast to monitor the timing, extent, and magnitude of the storm tide during the passage of Hurricane Matthew. This data will be available from a web application portal.
SAWSC is also responding to the rains and flooding being forecast by ensuring that USGS real-time gages are operational and providing critical information on river stage and rainfall to the public, National Weather Service, and emergency management officials. In addition, USGS will deploy staff to make streamflow measurements at streamgages across the state to verify and update the relations river stage and streamflow. These relations are critical for determining the volume of water that passes a streamgaging station at any given river stage and are used in issuing flood warnings, mapping floodplains, monitoring water-quality and environmental conditions and managing water resources.
Hurricane Joaquin Products
Open-File Report 2015-1201
By: Toby D. Feaster, John M. Shelton, and Jeanne C. Robbins
This report provides preliminary information documenting the peak streamflows and stages for those rivers and streams in South Carolina that are part of the USGS real-time streamgaging network impacted by the historic rainfall that occurred October 1-5, 2015.
 USGS National Floods page for Hurricane Joaquin
Appalachian Floods and Hurricane Joaquin Data Viewer
Flood Recovery Information and Tools for Infrastructure Planning
Scientific Investigations Report 2014–5030
Methods for Estimating the Magnitude and Frequency of Floods for Urban and Small, Rural Streams in Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina, 2011
Scientific Investigations Report 2009–5156
Magnitude and Frequency of Rural Floods in the Southeastern United States, 2006: Volume 3, South Carolina
Land Use and Land Cover data
NLCD 2011 Land Cover, NLCD 2001 to 2011 Land Cover Change, NLCD 2006 to 2011 Land Cover Change, Tree Canopy and Imperviousness data.
Current Conditions
South Atlantic Water Science Center - South Carolina activities include:
- Presentation of real-time streamflow, water-quality, groundwater levels data.
- Operation and oversight of an extensive network of water-resource monitoring sites.
- Archive of water-resource information collected for more than 100 years.
- Data collection and investigative studies related to issues of concern to water-management entities and citizens.
- Publishing data and topical reports.
S.C. Monitoring Networks
The USGS South Atlantic Water Science Center - South Carolina continuously monitors surface water, groundwater, and water quality parameters across the state. Monitoring sites are operated in cooperation with various local, State, or Federal agencies.
South Carolina provides real-time water-stage, streamflow and precipitation data at 152 sites across the state.
Over twenty groundwater wells are monitored by the USGS in South Carolina. These wells record data on hourly intervals.
Water-quality conditions are continuously monitored by the USGS at 42 sites across the state of South Carolina
Featured Podcasts and Products
Video
Interview with USGS SAWSC Director Eric Strom
Audio Podcasts
Projects
- Assessing Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals Risk In U.S. National Parks
- Determination of Changes in Water Quality, Streambed Sediment, and Benthic Macroinvertebrates as a Result of Stormwater Runoff from Selected Bridges in South Carolina
- Development of a Guidance Manual for Assessing Scour Using the South Carolina Bridge-Scour Envelope Curves
- Environmental Fate and Transport of Contaminants of Emerging Concern (CEC)
- Establishment of a Hurricane Storm Tide Network for South Carolina
- Investigation of Flow Patterns, Water–Quantity, and Water-Quality Conditions in the Bushy Park Reservoir, Charleston, South Carolina
- Investigation of the Potential Source Area, Contamination Pathway, and Probable Release History of Cholorinated-Solvent-Contaminated Groundwater at the Capital City Plume Site, Montgomery, Alabama, 2008-2010
- NAWQA Regional Stream Quality Assessment
Hydrologic Tools Now Available
Below are links to Web sites that can help you view South Carolina water data and to analyze historical hydrologic processes in the state.
South Atlantic Water Science Center - South Carolina RiverCam
 We now have two webcam installations. The latest installation is near Wade Hampton, SC and is sponsered by the SC Department of Transportation
USGS WaterAlert: Instant Information about Current Water Conditions
Now you can receive instant, customized updates about water conditions by subscribing to WaterAlert, a new service from the U.S. Geological Survey. Whether you are watching for floods, interested in recreational activities or concerned about the quality of water in your well, WaterAlert allows you to receive daily or hourly updates about current conditions in rivers, lakes and groundwater when they match conditions of concern to you. Alerts are provided via text message or email for any station you select.
National Water Information System: Mapper
The new NWIS Mapper provides an interactive map interface to all USGS water data (historical and current). (Note: To access data, zoom in on the map to level 11 or greater to make the individual sites clickable.)
Google maps deliver current streamflow conditions
We recently added a Google-map based Web page to deliver map-based current surface-water resources conditions in South Carolina.
Historical instantaneous unit values
Historical streamflow unit values are now available through the USGS Instantaneous Data Archive (IDA)
Current streamflow rating tables
Shift-adjusted ratings are now available to you on line; they are updated daily and can change frequently.
Highlighted Publications
The South Atlantic Water Science Center - South Carolina produces publications about water resources.
  Lyell Collection: USGS Libraries
The use of data-mining techniques for developing effective decision support systems: a case study of simulating the effects of climate change on coastal salinity intrusion
 Scientific Investigations Report 2014–5114
Assessment of Ethylene Dibromide, Dibromochloropropane, Other Volatile Organic Compounds, Radium Isotopes, Radon, and Inorganic Compounds in Groundwater and Spring Water from the Crouch Branch and McQueen Branch Aquifers near McBee, South Carolina, 2010–2012
 Scientific Investigations Report 2014–5104
Scaling Up Watershed Model Parameters—Flow and Load Simulations of the Edisto River Basin, South Carolina, 2007–09
 Scientific Investigations Report 2014–5050
Groundwater Availability in the Crouch Branch and McQueen Branch Aquifers, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, 1900–2012
 Scientific Investigations Map: 3289
Bathymetric maps and water-quality profiles of Table Rock and North Saluda Reservoirs, Greenville County, South Carolina
 Scientific Investigations Report 2014–5030
Methods for estimating the magnitude and frequency of floods for urban and small, rural streams in Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina, 2011
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